White House adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once told President Richard Nixon, "And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern, according to newly-released tapes from the Nixon library.

The shocking statement from Kissinger, a Jew, was followed up by an agreement from Nixon, who said, "I know. We can't blow up the world because of it."

Kissinger also advised Nixon when he was president during the campaign to free the Jews from the Soviet Union, The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy.

The shocking statements contradict an image among some American Jews that Nixon was a friend of Israel and the Jews.

Nixon also is quoted as saying an anti-Semitic generalization, What it is, is it's the insecurity. Its the latent insecurity. Most Jewish people are insecure. And that's why they have to prove things."

The Atlantics Jeffrey Goldberg, a usually constant critic of Israel, responded on his blog, "I suppose he [Nixon] is right, at least on the narrow subject of Henry Kissinger.

The conversations that were recorded on secret tapes followed a March 1973 meeting between Nixon and Kissinger with former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who pleaded with the United States to help open the barred gates for millions of oppressed Soviet Jews, denied religious freedom, wanting to flee the Communist regime. Eventually, the freedom for Soviet Jews campaign broke the ban in later administrations and allowed massive immigration of Jews to Israel as well as to the United States.

Nixons disgust with minorities was not restricted to Jews. He labeled Irishmen as drinkers and Italians as wonderful people but who don't have their heads screwed on tight.

Like to take exception with the "minority" statement. Any of you people out there remember when the Mullis family down in Ripley County decided to move off the ridge and into a town? That name changed to Millhouse.

Now, what ethnicity were the Mullis family? (That, BTW, is the M in Nixon's middle name).

Once you figure that out get back here and tell me what the SMALLEST ethnicity in Europe is.

Maybe I am missing something here, but what Kissinger said was correct. How is the Soviet Union’s gassing Jews an American problem? It sounds like a Jewish problem to me. The only obligation the United States government has is to its own citizens. Since when did the United States government become responsible for the Jews throughout the world? The United States might choose to intervene, but it is not obligated to do so.

It was the Yom Kippur war (1973). Nixon stripped weapons and ammo stocks from National Guard and Reserve units sent them to Isreal at the most critical time. Israel was running out of ammo and weapons just as they were stemming the tide of the Syrian and Egyptian advances. I remember seeing convoys of tnaks and mobile 155mm howitzers going down highway 101 to Vandenberg AFB where they were being flown to Isreal and driven off of transports and straight to battle.

Nixon saved Isreal, no doubt about it.

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posted on 12/12/2010 9:22:05 PM PST
by Hugin
("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)

“Thus started the subtle, opaque use of the Israeli bomb to ensure that the United States kept its pledge to maintain Israel’s conventional weapons edge over its foes.65 There is significant anecdotal evidence that Henry Kissinger told President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, that the reason for the U.S. airlift was that the Israelis were close to going nuclear.66 “

Sounds like an out of context comment, the point of which was we can’t go to nuclear war over the Soviet Union mistreating its own citizens. Nixon WAS a great friend of Israel taht is undenable. He put our troops in Europe on nuclear alert to deter the Soviets from coming to Egypt’s aid against Israel.

“Israel is a nation with a state religion, but its top leaders are not religious Jews. The intricacies of Jewish religious politics and rabbinical law do affect their politics and decision processes. In Jewish law, there are two types of war, one obligatory and mandatory (milkhemet mitzvah) and the one authorized but optional (milkhemet reshut).140 The labeling of Prime Minister Begin’s Peace for Galilee operation as a milchemet brera (war of choice) was one of the factors causing it to lose support.141 Interpretation of Jewish law concerning nuclear weapons does not permit their use for mutual assured destruction. However, it does allow possession and threatening their use, even if actual use is not justifiable under the law. Interpretations of the law allow tactical use on the battlefield, but only after warning the enemy and attempting to make peace. How much these intricacies affect Israeli nuclear strategy decisions is unknown.142

The secret nature of the Israeli nuclear program has hidden the increasing problems of the aging Dimona reactor and adverse worker health effects. Information is only now public as former workers sue the government. This issue is now linked to continued tritium production for the boosted anti-tank and anti-missile nuclear warheads that Israeli continues to need. Israel is attempting to obtain a new, more efficient, tritium production technology developed in India.143”

So, any of the bombs that India tested in 1998 that had something to do with Israel?

This was a dispassionate discussion of the realities of world political considerations. There are limits on what the US can do. We must focus our energy on the possible, not the impossible.

About the racist language. "If you have lusted after a woman in your heart you've committed adultery with her." If you've ever had a negative thought about someone because of their race you've committed racism. All people are murders, thieves, and racist because of their evil thoughts. That's what Jesus came to save us from.

Nope. The article seems to suggest that Israel wants to obtain Tritium extraction tech from India, and not the other way around.

India developed a highly efficient process for the process of extraction of tritium from Heavy Water (deuterium), sometime in the late 80s. Tritium is used in the production of boosted fission weapons. Which is what the article says they want to produce for anti tank and other purposes.

Paki media at that time claimed that three of the low-yield devices which were tested were of Israeli origin given that they had more pressing requirements and said that the whole thing was a Jewish-Hindu project. I clearly remember hearing reports on that-not many sources on line.

Nixon’s support for Israel in October 1973 actually dangerously denuded U.S. defenses in one important area: our stockpile of air-to-air missiles, located at Warner Robins AFB, was stripped of almost all AIM-7 and AIM-9 missiles. As a then-second lieutenant, I saw unmarked El Al airlines 747 cargo aircraft come in and take them all. If we had had to suddenly go to war in Europe, we would have had only the air-to-air missiles in forward locations in Germany, which surely would not have been enough...

Nixon has “several” such very teeny tiny minorities among his forebears ~ probably including NORWEGIAN Dwarves. Frankly, the Basques are just too numerous for them to get in on any of this “smallest minority” stuff.

This sounds like one of those "program seminar people" arguments ~ the old "I was a Republican until so and so won".

No, that's not how it works. NO SANE PERSON would give up being a Republican just so he could vote for a Democrat.

Besides, Nixon wasn't known as "the great anti-semite", he was known as "the great anti-communist", and until quite recently, historically speaking, being a commie wasn't all that big a problem with many Jewish people, so if they wanted to be soft on communism and hate Nixon because he wasn't, that is more a Jewish problem than a Nixon problem (taking that Kissinger thing and flipping it to Helen Gahagan Douglas).

Next time you're at the Nixon Library stop by that little exhibit where there's this Democrat campaign flyer prepared by Douglas forces that accuses Nixon of voting against NATIONAL DEFENSE.

That, right there, is when Nixon picked up one of Douglas' earlier opponents claims that she was "pink right down to her panties".

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The tapes having been public for many years now, my reaction is as it always is, how stupid was Nixon. Tapes, well OK, I have a bad memory and they'd be handy writing memoirs, but he knew there was a fireplace in the White House, why did they survive.

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posted on 12/13/2010 5:38:00 PM PST
by SJackson
(In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)

I think Kissinger was just screwing around with Nixon here. Seeing who could be more outrageous. Maybe both were drinking.... Nixon was at the end of his presidency. No matter....One way or another the Nixon crew came through for Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur war

“It was the Yom Kippur war (1973). Nixon stripped weapons and ammo stocks from National Guard and Reserve units sent them to Isreal at the most critical time. Israel was running out of ammo and weapons just as they were stemming the tide of the Syrian and Egyptian advances. I remember seeing convoys of tnaks and mobile 155mm howitzers going down highway 101 to Vandenberg AFB where they were being flown to Isreal and driven off of transports and straight to battle.”

And not only did the weapons come in perfect condition, there were things like notes that said “this plane veers right when XYZ happens” and very specific directions.

Lots of recitiations of Exodus and G-d’s promise to Abraham written in magic marker on shells or whatever.

Pictures are in every “junior high” (grade when you are 13) history book.

Israel WILL NEVER FORGET who helped.

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posted on 12/14/2010 7:58:04 AM PST
by Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)

It is not surprising that Nixon held those views. He made some unsavory alliances in WWII. If you want to know more about what he did - read Peter Levenda’s “Unholy Alliance” and the “Sinister Forces” three volume set.

I have reached the conclusion that these individuals are about to implement the next stage of the Nazi plan. These individuals have been playing sleight of hand with us for far longer than we know. They are in possession of weapons for which no defense exists. Only G-d can save us now.

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posted on 12/14/2010 7:07:59 PM PST
by nolongerademocrat
("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)

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